Phone scammers successful in S. Tahoe
The South Lake Tahoe Police Department and El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department received several phone calls last weekend from residents someone called saying they were identifying a specific individual from one of the agencies.
Residents were told that they had warrants out for their arrest for failing to respond to a jury summons. The callers were then told they could avoid arrest if they purchased “Green Dot” prepaid money cards and provided the code numbers to the caller. The callers used the names of local judges, court clerks and officers.
Many community members were scammed out of thousands of dollars.
This is one of many hoaxes involving law enforcement. Law enforcement agencies do not call people and force them to pay money to avoid arrest, nor do they demand payment to keep people out of jail or to free them from jail.
There are people who will fall for anything. These dirt bag scammers need to be sent away, and never return.
Again, why would you give any information to anyone over the phone; especially when the information relates to money. I do agree that these @holes need to be dealt with.
Sounds like it could be an inside job. Why would the scammers say the victim’s had not responded to jury summons? The victim would know that was bs, especially if they hadn’t. Therefore, the victims must have NOT responded to a summons. Very interesting.
This article was badly written….but this is a bad situation that is aimed at the elderly, the language challenged and those who frighten easily.
I believe the cavalier, over-forceful way our police officers treat people they are arresting, (or sometimes not arresting) contributes to the fear these jerk criminals are feeding on.
When frightened people are trying to stay out of the system, they do stupid things to avoid a confrontation with a cop, who just might break in their door, tase them etc. The videos on TV or the internet where helpless people are abused may be rare incidents overall, but they were not faked. Imagine their fear of the shaved headed bubble sun=glassed buffed out cops.